"Ah yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."- Unknown
It is not easy to forget our painful past, but through God’s grace and meditating on His word we are able overcome condemnation due to those past experiences.
Just take a moment and think about the Apostle Paul trying to preach the gospel and these words he would hear daily, “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”. Some of the believers even doubted his credentials; they could not imagine God anointing the persecutor of believers to proclaim the very same gospel he was trying to destroy.
The question is what is that is in your past that is holding you captive from becoming who God created you to be.
When you hear the enemy whispering condemnation in your ears, just proclaim these words over your life like the Apostle Paul:
· Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. – 2 Cor 5:17
· Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, - Phil 3:13
· I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Gal 2:20
